Numbers 8:14

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“In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.”

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BSBPD

“In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 8:14 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 3:9Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been given exclusively to him from among the Israelites.
  2. Numbers 3:12“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to Me,
  3. Numbers 3:45“Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites belong to Me; I am the LORD.
  4. Numbers 6:2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
  5. Numbers 8:17For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
  6. Numbers 16:9Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
  7. Numbers 18:6Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.
  8. Deuteronomy 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.
  9. Malachi 3:17“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  10. Romans 1:1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
  11. Galatians 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
  12. Hebrews 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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